Quotes About Vulnerability

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.

Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Fear has run rampant amongst our community of models. Far too many young models, both women and men, are mistreated and put at risk.

I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.

Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

A man might actually brush off vulgar tweets that come to him. Women are likely to be affected by it.

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

Climate change is not a theoretical question for the people of the Caribbean.

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

I have always been scared of confrontation. My therapist says it stems from my fear of abandonment.

It does not mean you're broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don't hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it's available, go to a therapist.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

I'd make a terrible therapist.

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.